Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 12-1-13 (2026)
Grounds for Disqualification of Justices of Supreme Court and Judges of Courts of Appeals from Participation in Decision of Cases.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
No justice of the Supreme Court or judge of a Court of Appeals of Alabama shall participate in the decision of any case in the Supreme Court or a court of appeals appealed to said court from any lower court of the State of Alabama, of which lower court said justice was judge at the time said case was decided and who presided at the trial of said case in said lower court.
(Code 1907, §4628; Code 1923, §8572; Code 1940, T. 13, §7.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1995–2015 · leading case: Hinton v. State, 172 So. 3d 348 (Ala. 2012).
Hinton v. State, 172 So. 3d 348 (Ala. 2012). “” Further, Ala. Code 1975, § 12-1-13, provides: “No justice of the Supreme Court or judge of a Court of Appeals of Alabama shall participate in the decision of any case in the Supreme Court or a court of appeals appealed to said court from any lower court of the State of…”
State ex rel. Alabama Policy Inst., 200 So. 3d 495 (Ala. 2015). “See § 12-1-13, Ala.Code 1975. For an analogous reason I declined to vote in this case when my administrative order was potentially under review.”
Roe v. Mobile Cnty. Appointment Bd., 676 So. 2d 1206 (Ala. 1995). “No Justice is related to any of the parties by kinship or affinity, and no Justice has represented any of the parties as their attorney, so no ground for recusal based on relationship or legal representation exists. The movants rely on the general language recited in Canon…”
Coke v. Lowe, 660 So. 2d 612 (Ala. Civ. App. 1995). “, recuses, pursuant to § 12-1-13, Ala.Code 1975.”
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